Our Expertise

Lobbying & Government Relations

Our agency boasts a unique bench of advocates of every major partisan stripe from across Canada’s diverse political landscape. Our consultants have previously worked as corporate management consultants, public servants, and political staff in provincial legislatures and on Parliament Hill. Solstice offers an unrivaled network of influential advisors for clients seeking effective advocacy on sensitive matters of public concern.

Reputation & Defamation

The new social media context, and the rapidity with which information—true or false—can spread, is a major concern to those who have reputations to uphold. Companies, high-level executives, and political candidates seek Solstice’s confidential and effective expertise when confronted with potential or imminent threats to their reputations. Our team includes best-in-class PR consultants, crisis management operatives, and defamation and cyber-libel experts. Solstice has also created a nationwide partnership of defamation lawyers. We are able, when required, to work seamlessly with legal counsel to defend the reputations of those who are falsely accused, smeared, or targeted. We rehabilitate the public image of our clients by setting the record straight with a no-nonsense and assertive approach.

Post-secondary institutional support

Solstice Public Affairs has earned its reputation as the lead advisory to post-secondary institutions in Ontario and across Canada. Our representative matters include advocating for—and obtaining—government approval for new post-secondary institutions, funding for new innovative and cutting-edge programs, and creative new financing pipelines allowing colleges and universities to flourish. Our team includes educational leaders, academics, and former senior civil servants and staff at the Ontario Ministry of Colleges and Universities. Solstice has been specifically recognized for its significant role in securing government help for French-language institutions.

Indigenous Advocacy

For decades, Solstice Public Affairs has played a key role in advocating for the respect and assertion of Indigenous rights and peoples. Solstice has a well-established track record of establishing mutually beneficial relationships and honouring Indigenous traditional lands, while seeking creative and innovative solutions to create sustainable commercial and governmental partnerships. A recognized member of the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business (CCAB), Solstice advocates for Indigenous, Métis, and Inuit groups, with specific expertise on matters involving mining, resource extraction, pipelines and oil and gas matters. Solstice has acted on significant files in obtaining government support for Indigenous groups, Conversely, Solstice also assists major institutional actors in developing policies, governance rules, and hiring practices to best serve our Indigenous communities and leverage their success.

Political Campaigns

Solstice Public Affairs wins political campaigns at all levels of government. We’ve helped elect city councilors, Members of Provincial Parliament, and federal Members of Parliament. Our past clients include legislators and cabinet ministers alike. Our political campaign team includes some of the fiercest political operatives of all major political parties, former reporters, and digital campaign experts. We strategize. We coach. We raise money. And most of all, we win.

Pipelines/Oil & Gas

Canada boasts immense oil and gas resources. More than 840,000 km of pipelines traverse our vast land, part of a larger oil and gas sector that employs between 100,000 and 200,000 Canadians. However, getting resources to market has been a significant political and regulatory challenge. Solstice’s roster of consultants includes advisors familiar with the complexities and challenges of this key resource sector with first-hand experience navigating the legal, political, and regulatory processes of the Keystone XL, TransMountain, Energy-East, and Enbridge Line 9 pipelines.

Transport & Rail

Solstice plays a major role in our country’s transportation infrastructure, with particular expertise in railways. Solstice has advocated on behalf of minor and major players in decisive regulatory matters. Our recent representative matters include advocating for the creation of a major rail corridor to Canada’s “Ring of Fire” resource hub.

We’ve done this before

When a struggling century-old historic university sought our counsel—we delivered.

We deployed an unrivalled team of educators, former high-level Ministry of Education advisors, and political strategists to craft a plan, sell it, and save a generation of Francophone students.

When the GTA’s leading Francophone social services network needed government help during the pandemic—Solstice stepped up.

Our trusted advisors harnessed their extensive network to make sure that key social services would be delivered.

When an outsider running for the leadership of a major federal political party sought our help—we said yes.

She went from underdog to real contender. Now she serves as a sitting Member of Parliament. She may one day lead her party.

When Indigenous stakeholders in the Northwest Territories dreamt of a college to train its future leaders—Solstice made it happen.